Installing Lich

[Mitchem]

I'm trying to install Lich on a second computer.. I've followed each step as I did before, When I try to open Lich it's self it keeps asking me to download GTK2. I've done this at lease a dozen times. Any help please? ...Oh it's on windows 8

[Euler]

check the version of ruby?

[Mitchem]

check the version of ruby?

I clicked the link and downloaded the one it says to which is "Ruby 2.0.0-p647"

[Euler]

check the ruby on your machine. You may have had another version installed already. I am an idiot, but I think GTK errors are usually ruby version issues with lich.

[Mitchem]

yeah, it's reading as 2.0.0 i've uninstalled it and reinstalled it.. same thing... I'm really at a huge loss here

[Tillmen]

Open a command prompt as admin (click start button, type cmd in search bar, right-click on cmd.exe in the list, click on "Run as administrator"), copy/paste this and hit enter:

c:\ruby200\bin\gem.bat install gtk2 --source http://rubygems.org --no-ri --no-rdoc

then copy/paste the results here. The command prompt kind of makes it seem like you can't copy from it. Just right-click, click select all, hit enter, come here and paste it.

[Tenzle]

Was doing a reinstall of ruby / lich on this machine and ran into this problem this is what you get after installing the gtk2 gem:

C:\Ruby200-x64>gem.bat install gtk2 --source http://rubygems.org --no-ri --no-rd
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Fetching: cairo-1.14.3-x64-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed cairo-1.14.3-x64-mingw32
Fetching: glib2-3.0.5-x64-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed glib2-3.0.5-x64-mingw32
Fetching: atk-3.0.5-x64-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed atk-3.0.5-x64-mingw32
Fetching: pango-3.0.5-x64-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed pango-3.0.5-x64-mingw32
Fetching: gdk_pixbuf2-3.0.5-x64-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed gdk_pixbuf2-3.0.5-x64-mingw32
Fetching: gtk2-3.0.5-x64-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed gtk2-3.0.5-x64-mingw32
6 gems installed

C:\Ruby200-x64>

Now when I run lich i'm having the same problem I was before, where selecting a character results in nothing, no game lauch just the program closing. I'm able to enter the game with any method, but unable to link lich with the SGE, the website, or launch the game from the lich window itself. I had not changed anything recently but one morning I was just unable to log in.

[Tillmen]

Well.. interesting..

You have the 64 bit version of Ruby. The installation instructions say to use the 32 bit version, and then it says not to use the 64 bit version. However, it says that because the 64 bit gtk2 gems weren't precompiled for Windows when I wrote the instructions, but it appears that they are now according to your copy/paste.

So, on one hand, good for you! On the other hand, as far as I know, no one has used or tested 64 bit Lich on Windows. In theory, it should work fine, so your issue may or may not be related. The debug file might have some clues as to what is going on.

[Tenzle]

Getting this in the log file:

2015-09-25 08:56:58: info: Lich 4.6.22
2015-09-25 08:56:58: info: Ruby 2.0.0
2015-09-25 08:56:58: info: x64-mingw32
2015-09-25 08:56:58: info: no force-mode info given
2015-09-25 08:59:11: error: failed to find the Simutronics launcher

Also before my reinstall lich was working fine on ruby 2.1+ 64 bit it just takes a little bit of work to get the gems installed. Of note I'm not able to link to anything even after several uninstall/reinstalls of SGE and SF.

[Tillmen]

Try reinstalling the Simutronics launcher.